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What you describe does confirm you do not have proper permissions on your desktop folder.

Lets go ahead and get a bit more aggressive and get it reset properly.

Open up My Computer, and navigate to C:\Users\<your username>
Inside that folder you will see several user folders, like desktop, documents, videos, etc. We are interested in the Desktop folder.
Right-click it and choose properties.
Click the security tab.
Click the Advanced button.
Click the Owner tab.
Click Edit.
Select your name from the list, select replace owner on subcontainers and objects, then click OK on each window until you are back to My Computer.

If My Computer is not open, make sure it is open and navigate back to C:\Users\<your username>
Find the Desktop folder again, right-click it, select properties, and then click the security tab.
Click Advanced.
Click the Permissions tab.
Click Change Permissions.
Select Include inheritable permissions from this objects parents.
Select Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object.
Click OK multiple times until you are back to My Computer, and finally, close My Computer.

I did not get your message in time,I am sorry you had so much to do.
I performed a recovery of two weeks with Acronis and the issue is resolved. I cannot however copy to a word doc with a right click. I ned to do cc and cv.
This is new.
Thank you

The issue I mentioned in my last post about not being able to right click to copy etc has resolved itself once I ran Office once.and after the recovery with Acronis..Now, Office seems to be running well.

I run Norton and Malware Bytes regularly and they come up clean.

I did not know you could uninstall office.Do you just uninstall it in add/remove, go to MS to install it and then call M.S. to reactivate it with the 25 character code?

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